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Bass Lines!
ruyi:
--- Quote from: fish across face on 27 Apr 2009, 03:46 ---I had no idea Rod Temperton played bass, but he's written some of my favourite songs, and they all have great basslines - Rock With You, Boogie Nights for Heatwave, and Give Me The Night for George Benson.
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Oop, you're right I don't know anything at all. He does not play bass, but he was credited as writing some of my favorite songs on that record so I just kinda assumed he was responsible for the bass lines. As it turns out the bassist was Bobby Watson (from Rufus, not the jazz musician) and Louis Johnson from The Brothers Johnson.
Patrick:
--- Quote from: Ptommydski on 27 Apr 2009, 02:13 ---
--- Quote from: Patrick on 27 Apr 2009, 02:04 ---You couldn't tell the difference between this guy on an organ and John Paul Jones on a bass.
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Oh come on, yes you can.
I like RM but you can tell the difference every time.
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If you don't know what to listen for, you wouldn't expect to.
I am still waiting to hear a bassist be that awesome.
Dazed:
Guys, I don't want to burst everyone's bubble here, but the Doors did have bass players record tracks for them occasionally, even if they were never technically part of the band. Like, look up the guest artists for each album (particularly the late ones), there are usually at least a couple songs with a guest bassist.
Inlander:
--- Quote from: Nappuccino on 25 Apr 2009, 17:52 ---There's a series of jazz albums from miles davis in the med!a fire thread (cookin' steamin' workin' etc) that has some pretty killer bass stuff at times. its hard to pick a song out really... its all pretty damn neat.
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The bass on all those albums was played by Paul Chambers. That first Miles Davis quintet consistently played at a medium tempo that made the bass really bounce - helped of course by the fact that Chambers was such a good bassist!
If we're talking jazz bass players, then (steering clear of the obvious - Mingus, Haden, et al) two that everyone should absolutely be aware of are Scott LaFaro and Jimmy Blanton. Both died tragically young, but left some amazing work behind - check out the Bill Evans Trio's Waltz for Debby album, it features amazing playing from LaFaro, and Evans on piano and Paul Motian on drums (here's a truncated version of the title track). As for Blanton, he recorded with Duke Ellington - everything he did was terrific, but their duets in particular are worth seeking out.
ALoveSupreme:
Eben D'Amico from the Saves the Day album Stay What You Are produced some of my all time favorite pop-rock/emo basslines.
Completely smooth and tons of cool accidentals
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